📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #romance)
📜THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY📜
by Jenny Han
❗Now an Original Series on Prime Video
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➡️ Belly has an unforgettable summer in this stunning start to the Summer I Turned Pretty series from the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Jenny Han. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer—they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one wonderful and terrible summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.
📜THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY📜
by Jenny Han
❗Now an Original Series on Prime Video
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➡️ Belly has an unforgettable summer in this stunning start to the Summer I Turned Pretty series from the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Jenny Han. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer—they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one wonderful and terrible summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #mystery #horror)
📜THE TURN OF THE KEY📜
by Ruth Ware
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➡️ Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, The Turn of the Key is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss—a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten—by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family.
What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare—one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder.
📜THE TURN OF THE KEY📜
by Ruth Ware
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➡️ Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, The Turn of the Key is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss—a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten—by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family.
What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare—one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #contemporary)
📜TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW📜
by Gabrielle Zevin
❗Goodreads Book of the Year 2022
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➡️ In this exhilarating novel, two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees Sadie Green. He calls her name and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. But this won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.
📜TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW📜
by Gabrielle Zevin
❗Goodreads Book of the Year 2022
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➡️ In this exhilarating novel, two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees Sadie Green. He calls her name and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. But this won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #contemporary)
📜A LITTLE LIFE📜
by Hanya Yanagihara
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➡️ “Deeply moving. . . . A wrenching portrait of the enduring grace of friendship.” —NPR ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition.
Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.
📜A LITTLE LIFE📜
by Hanya Yanagihara
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➡️ “Deeply moving. . . . A wrenching portrait of the enduring grace of friendship.” —NPR ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition.
Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #psychology)
📜EMOTIONAL LABOUR📜
by Rose Hackman
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➡️ “An urgent look at emotional labor....Hackman’s words reveal the agency of women is still possible while the power of care, empathy, and love in action can lead us to the best in our humanity.”
― Eve Rodsky ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Drawing on years of research and hundreds of interviews, you’ll learn:
· How emotional labor pervades our workplaces, from the bustling food service industry to the halls of corporate America
· How race, gender, and class unequally shape the load we carry
· Strategies for leveling imbalances
· Empowering tools to stop anyone from gaslighting
Emotional labor is real, but it no longer has to be our burden alone. By recognizing its value and insisting on its shared responsibility, we can set ourselves free and forge a path to a world where empathy, love, and caregiving claim their rightful power.
📜EMOTIONAL LABOUR📜
by Rose Hackman
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➡️ “An urgent look at emotional labor....Hackman’s words reveal the agency of women is still possible while the power of care, empathy, and love in action can lead us to the best in our humanity.”
― Eve Rodsky ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Drawing on years of research and hundreds of interviews, you’ll learn:
· How emotional labor pervades our workplaces, from the bustling food service industry to the halls of corporate America
· How race, gender, and class unequally shape the load we carry
· Strategies for leveling imbalances
· Empowering tools to stop anyone from gaslighting
Emotional labor is real, but it no longer has to be our burden alone. By recognizing its value and insisting on its shared responsibility, we can set ourselves free and forge a path to a world where empathy, love, and caregiving claim their rightful power.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #memoir)
📜CALL THE MIDWIFE📜
by Jennifer Worth
❗#1 bestseller
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➡️ Beautifully written and utterly moving, The Midwife will touch the hearts of anyone who is, and everyone who has, a mother. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London--from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives to the woman with twenty-four children who can't speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city's seedier side--illuminate a fascinating time in history.
📜CALL THE MIDWIFE📜
by Jennifer Worth
❗#1 bestseller
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➡️ Beautifully written and utterly moving, The Midwife will touch the hearts of anyone who is, and everyone who has, a mother. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London--from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives to the woman with twenty-four children who can't speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city's seedier side--illuminate a fascinating time in history.
📚 Best GHOST STORIES 📚
🔻"The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
🔻"The Woman in Black" by Susan Hill
🔻"Mexican Gothic" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
🔻"The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde
🔻"The Little Stranger" by Sarah Waters
🔻"The Graveyard Apartment" by Mariko Koike
🔻"The Silent Companions" by Laura Purcell
🔻"Dark Matter" by Michelle Paver
🔻"The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
🔻"The Woman in Black" by Susan Hill
🔻"Mexican Gothic" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
🔻"The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde
🔻"The Little Stranger" by Sarah Waters
🔻"The Graveyard Apartment" by Mariko Koike
🔻"The Silent Companions" by Laura Purcell
🔻"Dark Matter" by Michelle Paver
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #classics #psychology)
📜GAMES PEOPLE PLAY📜
by Eric Berne
❗all time classic
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➡️ We think we’re relating to other people–but actually we’re all playing games. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Forty years ago, Games People Play revolutionized our understanding of what really goes on during our most basic social interactions. More than five million copies later, Dr. Eric Berne’s classic is as astonishing–and revealing–as it was on the day it was first published.
We play games all the time–sexual games, marital games, power games with our bosses, and competitive games with our friends. Detailing status contests like “Martini” (I know a better way), to lethal couples combat like “If It Weren’t For You” and “Uproar,” to flirtation favorites like “The Stocking Game” and “Let’s You and Him Fight,” Dr. Berne exposes the secret ploys and unconscious maneuvers that rule our intimate lives.
📜GAMES PEOPLE PLAY📜
by Eric Berne
❗all time classic
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➡️ We think we’re relating to other people–but actually we’re all playing games. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Forty years ago, Games People Play revolutionized our understanding of what really goes on during our most basic social interactions. More than five million copies later, Dr. Eric Berne’s classic is as astonishing–and revealing–as it was on the day it was first published.
We play games all the time–sexual games, marital games, power games with our bosses, and competitive games with our friends. Detailing status contests like “Martini” (I know a better way), to lethal couples combat like “If It Weren’t For You” and “Uproar,” to flirtation favorites like “The Stocking Game” and “Let’s You and Him Fight,” Dr. Berne exposes the secret ploys and unconscious maneuvers that rule our intimate lives.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #childrens)
📜PIPPI LONGSTOCKING📜
by Astrid Lindgren
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➡️ The beloved story of a spunky young girl and her hilarious escapades. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a flair for the outrageous that seems to lead to one adventure after another!
📜PIPPI LONGSTOCKING📜
by Astrid Lindgren
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➡️ The beloved story of a spunky young girl and her hilarious escapades. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a flair for the outrageous that seems to lead to one adventure after another!
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🔸 Обзор книг на английском
🔸 Разборы необычных слов и фраз из книг
🔸 Мысли и наблюдения
🔸 Викторины и розыгрыши
Все это и многое другое можно найти на канале у Алены.
☝️ Не обязательно быть гуру английского, чтобы стать частью сообщества: посты публикуются с параллельным переводом 😉
🔸 Мотивация на чтение и изучение английского
🔸 Обзор книг на английском
🔸 Разборы необычных слов и фраз из книг
🔸 Мысли и наблюдения
🔸 Викторины и розыгрыши
Все это и многое другое можно найти на канале у Алены.
☝️ Не обязательно быть гуру английского, чтобы стать частью сообщества: посты публикуются с параллельным переводом 😉
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #crime)
📜THE INSTITUTION📜
by Helen Fields
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➡️ To beat them, she’ll have to join them… ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
On a locked ward in the world’s highest-security prison hospital for the criminally insane, a nurse has been murdered and her newborn baby kidnapped. A ransom must be paid, and the clock is ticking.
Forensic profiler Dr Connie Woolwine is renowned for her ability to get inside the mind of a murderer. Now she must go deep undercover among the most deranged and dangerous men on earth, and use her unique skills to find the baby – before it’s too late.
She has five days to catch the killer.
But with the walls of The Institution closing in on her, will her sanity last that long?
📜THE INSTITUTION📜
by Helen Fields
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➡️ To beat them, she’ll have to join them… ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
On a locked ward in the world’s highest-security prison hospital for the criminally insane, a nurse has been murdered and her newborn baby kidnapped. A ransom must be paid, and the clock is ticking.
Forensic profiler Dr Connie Woolwine is renowned for her ability to get inside the mind of a murderer. Now she must go deep undercover among the most deranged and dangerous men on earth, and use her unique skills to find the baby – before it’s too late.
She has five days to catch the killer.
But with the walls of The Institution closing in on her, will her sanity last that long?